I was almost fired from ‘Sabrina’ for being too sexy 

Melissa Joan Hart captured the hearts of teen boys and girls alike when she starred in the 1996 sitcom “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.”

While the “Melissa & Joey” alum was just 20 when she appeared on the show, based on the Archie Comics character of the same name, she was aching for more mature gigs as the ABC series progressed.

However, the now-47-year-old’s magical, squeaky-clean image was tarnished when she posed half-naked for the cover of Maxim magazine in 1999 — and she was accused of breaching her TV contract because of it.

On top of that, she was nearly fired, too.

She claimed she found out she was being sued by the network at the premiere of her 1999 rom-com “Drive Me Crazy” — calling it the “worst day” of her life on a recent episode of the “Boy Meets World” rewatch podcast “Pod Meets World.”

She also revealed to hosts Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle that, as a result of her sexy cover shoot, she was even almost booted from her role in the horror parody film “Scary Movie” — something that she allegedly also found out on the red carpet.

The Long Island native, who appeared as Sabrina in a 1997 episode of “Boy Meets World,” said that she was waiting for a post-premiere car ride when she got the news.

“I get a call in the limo,” she said. “They’re like: ‘You’ve been fired from the movie, you can go back to your party,’ because there was an [after]party at Planet Hollywood.

“I was supposed to go and shoot the movie ‘Scary Movie’ in Vancouver. I was supposed to be the opening, vivacious, big-breasted one that’s murdered or something in the beginning,” she went on.

“Scary Movie” was released in 2000 and is a satire of the famed “Scream” franchise and was created by comedic brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans.

Carmen Elektra wound up getting the role that was slated for Hart.

Hart said that her lawyer asked her: “‘You did a photoshoot for Maxim magazine?’”

“I’m like: ‘Yes, I did.’ They’re like: ‘Well, you’re being sued and fired from your show, so don’t talk to the press, don’t do anything,’” she recalled.

“They were like: ‘We’re being fired from the show,’ I’m like, ‘Oh, my God,’ so I’m crying, then the movie gets out and everyone shows up,” she recalled of getting hit with the news at the premiere.

Her mother then frantically called her up and wondered what happened. “I’m like: ‘I don’t know, whatever my publicist told me to do on the red carpet or at the photoshoot!’” Hart said. “I did a photoshoot for Maxim. It’s Maxim — of course, you’re going to be in your underwear.”

The “Clarissa Explains All” alum then pointed out how her Archie Comics contract stated that she “would never play the character [of Sabrina] naked.”

She noted: “So here they were thinking I’m in breach because I’m playing the character. No, that was supposed to be me promoting my movie [‘Drive Me Crazy’], it wasn’t supposed to be a character. I had no control over what they wrote on the cover.”

In the end, Hart wrote an apology letter and the situation had fizzled out. She would go on to play the teenage witch until the show’s cancellation in 2003.

Hart also reflected on the backlash from the men’s magazine spread, saying: “Can Melissa be sexy? She’s 23 — is she allowed to be sexy? What’s going on here? Is it allowed? Is it OK? Why is she being fired from her show? And all the drama.

“It made for ‘Drive Me Crazy’ to come out and be a huge success.”